“Whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of professional sporting events being designated as listed events under the Broadcasting Act 1996 on the long-term growth of those sports.”
Asked by
Christine Jardine
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
Answer from Hansard
The Prime Minister
I am grateful to the hon. Lady for raising that case and the awful bereavement. If she would kindly send me the details, I will certainly have a look at the case. In relation to farming more broadly, as she knows, £5 billion was set aside in the Budget over the next two years as an investment in farming. That is the biggest amount that has ever been set aside— [ Interruption. ] I hear the chuntering, but the Conservatives actually failed to spend the last farming budget by £300 million. On the question of inheritance of family farms, it is important to bear in mind that in a typical case, which is parents passing to a child, the threshold is £3 million, and that is why, as she knows, the vast majority of farms will be totally unaffected.